Animalia > Chordata > Scorpaeniformes > Platycephalidae > Platycephalus > Platycephalus laevigatus

Platycephalus laevigatus (grassy flathead; Southern rock flathead; Smooth flathead; Rock flathead; Port Albert flathead; Marbled-bellied flathead; King flathead; Grass flathead; Black flathead)

Synonyms: Platycephalus proximus
Language: Mandarin Chinese

Wikipedia Abstract

Platycephalus laevigatus, the black flathead or rock flathead, is a large slender flathead with a small, narrow, slightly flattened head; corner of gill cover with two spines, upper longer than lower. The species only occurs in southern Australia.
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Prey / Diet

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Echinocephalus uncinatus[2]
Floriceps minacanthus[2]
Hysterothylacium cornutum[2]

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Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0